#133 Brave the Chill: Cold Water Immersion for Depression & Anxiety, with Dr. Mark Harper
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is a consultant anesthetist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital who, accidentally and via unrelated routes, has developed an interest in the negative effect of getting cold during surgical operations and the positive effects of cold water swimming. With his new book out CHILL, he shares his journey into the amazing impact cold water swimming has had on him, and others with anxiety and depression, PTSD, migraines, autoimmune disease, and more. Mark shares a step-by-step explanation of how to get started swimming and what you need to do before and after you get into the chilly water. He also shares that it doesn't need to be icy cold to gain so many benefits from a weekly swim. His passion is infectious. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Introducing Laseldisei by Issemyake, a tribute to today's masculinity that gives men the desire to live intensely, |
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| 0:21.8 | Awaken your senses. |
| 0:24.0 | Lusel Disei, the new fragrance for men. |
| 0:28.0 | Issemyake. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Gabby Reese and welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.0 | That point I thought, well, maybe we could use |
| 0:38.3 | cold water swimming as a treatment for depression. |
| 0:40.6 | When you come out of the water, I alert alive and have a sense of euphoria and |
| 0:45.9 | achievement and the act of taking a pill is never going to give you that and that's what you |
| 0:52.1 | get from the swing. |
| 0:55.2 | Hi everyone welcome to the show my guest today is Mark Harper |
| 0:59.2 | and Mark is a consultant anesthesiologist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital who after he became an |
| 1:06.4 | anesthesiologist and was in school he was trying to study the negative effects of getting cold during surgical operations. |
| 1:13.4 | I don't know if you've ever come out of surgery and you can be, you know, really cold, like |
| 1:17.6 | freezing. |
| 1:18.6 | They give you those shiny blankets. |
| 1:20.4 | But inadvertently and sort of unrelated, this brought him to the positive effects of cold water swimming and he has a new book out called |
| 1:27.9 | Chill and he shares his journey into cold water swimming and the amazing impact it not only had on him but on others |
| 1:35.0 | people with anxiety and depression PTSD migraines autoimmune disease and so much |
| 1:41.0 | more and he also breaks it down for us |
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